Where: Ethiopia (5.4° N, 36.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.2° N, 35.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mursi Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M.S.M. Drapeau, R. Bobe, J. Wynn in 2009-2012

• NME, National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Primary reference: D. Geraads, M. S. M. Drapeau, R. Bobe and J. G. Fleagle. 2015. Vulpes mathisoni, sp. nov., a new fox from the Pliocene Mursi Formation of southern Ethiopia and its contribution to the origin of African foxes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25:e943765 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173719: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 12.10.2015

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